Show Business – Movie Theater Business Explained

Once upon a time, movie studios and movie theaters were in the same business. The studios made films for theater chains that they either owned or controlled, and they harvested almost all their revenue from ticket sales. Then, in 1948, the government forced the studios to divest themselves of the theaters. Nowadays, the two are in very different businesses. Theater chains, in fact, are in three different businesses. Read the rest, here.

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Some of nation’s best libraries have books bound in human skin

A number of prestigious libraries _ including Harvard University’s _ have such books in their collections. While the idea of making leather from human skin seems bizarre and cruel today, it was not uncommon in centuries past.

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